Saba Keramati is a Chinese Iranian writer from California. She is the author of Self-Mythology (University of Arkansas Press, 2024), an MFA graduate of UC Davis, and a winner of the Discovery Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, The Adroit Journal, AGNI, The Margins, and other publications.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
Reading Farrokhzad in English
I call our language shared but O Forough—I lack an intimacy with you.I am translating the translation.Language does not die.Even language once removed.I am struck by your I.Our shared impulse—to […]